Note 1. To Heaven. The second line is explained by the third. Melancholy was in Jonsons day the name of a disease that was prescribed for. We might paraphrase by saying, Must I, because I am grieved for sin, be told my liver is out of order? In the next couplet he refers to the fashion of affecting melancholy. Cf. Shakespeares King John, iv. 1, 13